Permaculture is an approach to land management and settlement design
that adopts arrangements observed in flourishing natural ecosystems.
It includes a set of design principles derived using whole-systems
thinking. It applies these principles in fields such as regenerative
agriculture, town planning, rewilding, and community resilience.
Permaculture originally came from "permanent agriculture", but was
later adjusted to mean "permanent culture", incorporating social
aspects. The term was coined in 1978 by Bill Mollison and David
Holmgren, who formulated the concept in opposition to Western
industrialized methods and in congruence with Indigenous or
traditional knowledge.
